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Re: Why is NSString->FSRef so hard?
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Re: Why is NSString->FSRef so hard?


  • Subject: Re: Why is NSString->FSRef so hard?
  • From: Kyle Sluder <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:52:33 -0400

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 4:32 AM, ERG Consultant
<email@hidden> wrote:
> / has been in use since the inception of unix in 1970 that's 39 years. I seriously doubt it's going to change anytime soon. In 39 more years, i'll be dead.

Cocoa is derived from Openstep (or OPENSTEP, or OpEnStEp, depending on
the state of the caps lock key in the marketing department at the
time).  Openstep has run on a multitude of platforms, including
Microsoft Windows.  This is why the API exists.  With the API you also
get bonuses like proper concatenation of non-delimiter-terminated
paths with relative paths.

In other words, why not just use the damn API?  It's not like you need
to deposit a coin to make a function call.

--Kyle Sluder

P.S. Apologies for the pun.
P.P.S. If you did have to pay per call, how much more expensive would
a far call be?  :)
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